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To: Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.hb.north.de>
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Subject: Re: boot from sd1? 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 02 Jan 1996 19:29:16 +0100."
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Date: Wed, 03 Jan 1996 09:14:53 +0100
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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com>
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> Heyy...  maybe this is a silly idea :)  but what about adding the
> root device to the list of things configurable with -c?  default (-1?)
> is whatever the boot code (bios) guessed like its now, if thats wrong
> (`cannot mount root') simply reboot with -c and tell the kernel where
> it really is.  then write this back in dset -q...

My plan was to get somebody to make a sysctl editor to go along with the
userconfig editor, and make it a sysctl variable :-)

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